Karen RUINS MY HOUSE... GETS TAUGHT A LESSON! - Reddit Stories

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, mister Redder here, welcome back to another episode
of Reddit podcast Stories. Our first story will be reading today.
My stepdaughter ruined my house, so now I'm getting revenge.
After that, am I the jerk for making my niece
clean and cook to teach your respect? And after that,
my fiance refuses to add my name to the house
he owns Now for every thumbs up, this video gits one.

(00:22):
Karen does not get to ruin anyone's house. I'll find
a way readed boy, I always do, so please smash
that like button and subscribe and turn on notifications for
new stories from Reddit every single day. My stepdaughter ruined
my house, so now I'm getting revenge. I forty three female,
and my husband, who's forty seven. We've been married for

(00:44):
four years now. We both have kids from our previous marriages,
which includes our twelve and ten year old sons and Oh,
Who's eighteen daughter. My husband and I dated for three
years prior to getting married, but we all moved in
together two years ago. Oh lives with a full time
and it had a bit of a rocky start with
mine and Oh's relationship, but we managed to push through it.

(01:06):
I told Oh from day one that I wasn't her mom,
but if there was anything she wanted to talk about
or that she needs, she can come to me. After
a few months, we became quite close and she talked
to me about anything she was too embarrassed to talk
with her dad about. Recently, O has been trying to
make friends at college since she just started in the spring.
On campus residence is very expensive for the college and

(01:28):
it's close to our house, so O decided to stay
at home. That's not a problem. The problem is that
O keeps bringing her friends over to hang out but
leaving it a mess. Normally, it's not a major deal.
I have OCD, so sometimes there are issues depending on
the situation, though, because she picks up after herself. But
I recently hired a housekeeper to clean the house once

(01:49):
a week since I've been working overtime more often and
me and my husband just don't have the time to
do it. It's expensive, but I can't stand it when it
becomes too messy for me, so I think it's worth it.
This time, she brought her friends over after the house
was cleaned, and I guess they decided not to take
their shoes off and walked all around the house, leaving footprints.
They also made pizza from scratch and left the crumbles

(02:12):
on the counters, among other things. They pretty much made
the entire house filthy before I could even get home
once again. The cleaning service is quite expensive because I
like it a higher level of cleaning quality, so I
was ticked off. My husband is trying to make me
let it go because oh has always struggled to make friends,
but I can't let it go because of how much

(02:32):
it cost. I requested the exact amount I paid for
the cleaning service to her Venmo, and she acted all
confused on why she had to pay for it. I
explained that her and her friends ruined my house that
was just cleaned, but she insisted it wasn't her. I
have a ring camera and I have video proof of
her and her friends going into the house and they
were the only ones home that day before me. I

(02:54):
gave her two choices pay for the damages or I
stopped paying for her phone. She's complaining saying it wasn't
her and she doesn't have the money to pay for
the phone bill. Am I the jerk? At it? To
clear up confusion, the cleaners came before Oh fully cleaned
the house, then left, and an hour later Oh came
in with her friends. Footprints in your house and pizza

(03:16):
crumbs do not make a house filthy. You had plenty
of options other than charging your stepdaughter. You could have
cleaned it. Your husband could have cleaned it. You could
have asked her to et cetera. You're the jerk. Telling
your stepdaughter she ruined your house is a sure way
to ruin your relationship with her. You're the jerk for
calling your house ruined for a fairly easily cleanable mess.

(03:39):
She should have cleaned it because you're not the one
who usually disciplines, and this is obviously an issue for
you in between the two of you. You should have
told her father to enforce that. Of Course, her friends
should have taken their shoes off. Of Course, your stepdaughter
needs to clean up after herself and her friends. But
she's not a jerk for a living, and sometimes leaving
a mess ruined implies actual damage. A mess is a mess,

(04:01):
not damage. You're overreacting. You're the jerk. There's nothing wrong
with crumbs on the counter. My counter has more crumbs
than I know what to do with. You know why,
because that's what happens when you have kids. Same goes
for footprints. Unless you're one of those psychos that makes
people take off their shoes every time they step foot
into your house, you're gonna wind up with some footprints

(04:22):
here and there. Big woop. You sound insufferable, And if
I were your daughter, I would do so much more
to your precious house just to take you off. Am
I the jerk for making my niece clean and cook
to teach her respect. I'm a stay at home mom
by choice, and my husband works two jobs to make
that possible for me. Due to his two jobs, the

(04:42):
majority of housekeeping and cooking is my responsibility. My husband
spends extra time with the kids and taking care of
them when he's off or has an hour or two
of downtime, and dust stuff around the house on his
off time. We're happy with this arrangement and it works
for us. My niece, Jenny, who's twenty female, is staying
with us while she's in college. The only expenses she

(05:03):
has is her own food if she doesn't want to
eat what we make, her car, and her gas so
she works part time. She does not like our arrangement
at all. Jenny is constantly on about how my husband
needs to be doing more around the house and taking
care of his kids. I've told her that his contribution
is working so that I can pursue staying home, but
she doesn't listen and has told both of us that

(05:25):
it needs to be fifty to fifty with housekeeping in
the kids. My husband, for the most part, ignores her.
He told her one time he does what he can
when he can, and hasn't entertained her pestering sense. It
got to a point I told Jenny she either needs
to respect our dynamic, not agree with just respect, or
that she would need to figure out a different living arrangement.

(05:46):
A couple days ago, my husband got home early, around
eleven thirty pm. He wanted to play some games to
unwind before we went to bed. He asked if I
moved his console. We were looking for it when Jenny
came up from the basement and said that she had
his console and would give it back once He actually
helped around the house so I could get a break.
We got his console back after telling her we will

(06:07):
not tolerate stealing in our house and told her we'd
figure out what to do about her by the morning.
We decided to give her one last chance before kicking
her out. We asked what all she thought he should
be doing around the house, and she told us, and
we then told her that she would be responsible for
all of those tasks minus childcare for the week we
sent our oldest to my parents, and for the first

(06:29):
four days if it was on that list, I didn't
do it. Some mess accumulated and meals didn't get made
two out of those four days. Jenny complained that she
couldn't do everything with her studies and job, but I
told her I didn't want to hear it since she
expected my husband to do it. The fifth day, Jenny
left to stay with a friend and I got a
call from my sister. She feels what we did was

(06:50):
cruel and too far, since Jenny was just trying to
stand up for her aunt. I told her I didn't
need Jenny standing up for me. What I needed was
for her to respect how my husband and I run
our household and not always have a go at him.
She wants us to let Jenny come back and drop
the cleaning lesson, but I told her no way, since
she did steal from my husband over this. My own

(07:12):
parents are now backing my sister, Were we wrong to
have Jenny do housework? To make a point? Add it
to the people who are concerned and keep telling me
to call a crisis helpline, Please buzz off. You're the jerk.
Just because your husband sits on his butt all day
in an air conditioned office, browsing the internet and talking
down to low paid employees does not give him the

(07:33):
right to come home and play video games until it's
time to go to sleep. Your niece is one hundred
percent right, and it's so sad that you can't see that.
Looks like your husband has you brainwashed into his outdated beliefs,
and your niece is just trying to get you to
wake up from your delusion. This story honestly breaks my heart.
Why should all of the child care or house chores

(07:53):
be your responsibility when your husband benefits just as much
from a clean house as you do, you're the jerk.
I'm sorry, but your niece is correct. This isn't the
fifties anymore, and fathers can't get by doing the bare
minimum at home just because they have some basic job
they do. It's been proven time and time again that
stay at home moms have it much harder than any

(08:14):
father who spends his days goofing off in the workplace.
You have to take the kids to school and pick
them up, cook breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, et cetera. Basically
be a twenty four to seven babysitter, and all he
has to do is go to work clock in and
talk to his idiot friends all day. I hope you
realize how wrong you are and don't be surprised when

(08:34):
niece goes no contact with you. Not the jerk. What
is it with you people here on Reddit? If the
dynamic works for them, why can't you just agree to
disagree and be happy for Opie that her family is happy, healthy,
and safe. She said that her husband works two separate
jobs so that she can be what she'd liked to,
which is a stay at home mom. If that's what

(08:55):
makes her happy and it works for them, where's the
harm in it? Sometimes I feel like many of you
are so anti tradition that it warps your mind into
something that is very broken. To say the least, my
fiance refuses to add my name to the house he owns.
My fiance twenty eight male, and I twenty six female,
started dating three years ago and I can't wait to

(09:17):
be with him for the rest of my life. But
I think I might have messed up. We got engaged
three months ago and are planning on getting married in November,
and last night we were discussing some things about the
wedding and the topic of our financial plan for once
we're married, which is where the argument started, because I
asked him when I would be added on to the
deed for the house. Background. When my fiance was twenty three,

(09:39):
his uncle passed and left him a huge inheritance, which
has basically set him up for life, especially since he
doesn't like super flashy things and only really spends money
on his hobbies. And for the first two years after this,
he struggled to date because he was always worried the
girl he was dating was using him. I moved in
with fiance a year into our relationship and he has
never charged me for any bills and only expects me

(10:01):
to pay for luxury items that I want. Nine months ago,
me and my fiance had a discussion in which he
asked me if I wanted to stop working, because I
worked as a teacher and he could tell that my
work wasn't making me happy, which he was right. We
came to the agreement that I would stop working and
some ground rules. The ground rules include that he would
give me allowance every month and that he expected me

(10:23):
to not just sit at home all day on my
phone because he wants me to find hobbies and passions
because we both don't want kids. I was totally on
board with the rules, and quitting really helped my mental health.
So when I brought up having my name added to
the house deed, he got really quiet. He told me
that he didn't feel comfortable adding my name to the
deed as the house had been fully paid off by

(10:43):
him before we had even met, and he felt that
he is the one responsible for all the payments. This
made me upset because I thought he was trying to
say that I was using him, and we're getting married,
so I thought the house would become ours. He told
me that things will become ours, but this was the
first house he ever bought, and that he wanted to
keep something for himself. He told me that if we

(11:04):
decide to change houses or have one built, which we
have discussed before, that he would have both of our
names on the deed. This made me more upset because
if he's willing to do it on the possible next house,
why can't he do it for our current house. We
got into an argument and I left to go to
my sister's apartment and texted my friend about the situation,
and she told me that I was being a jerk
and overreacting. But I don't see it that way, and

(11:27):
I think he should be willing to put my name
on the deed. Am I overreacting and throwing away a
good relationship? Or is he being a jerk by not
seeing my side? You are not the jerk. Once you
get married, regardless of job situation or the fact that
the house was bought and paid for before you and
him got together, you have every right to ask to
be on the deed. What if God forbid, something happens

(11:50):
to him, You're potentially left without the house and access
to it, especially if there are other family members. He
may have promised it to or have a current will to.
If tables return, he'd expect that you add him. He's
the one that pushed you to leave your teaching job.
It doesn't need to be done until after you're married.
I think you should get your own source of income however,

(12:10):
because if something were to happen to him, you're likely
not going to get a dime out of the situation.
Not the jerk. A marriage is supposed to be a
union two becoming one. What's his is yours and what's
yours is his. There's an unhealthy power imbalance here with
your current situation. His giving you an allowance every month
is giving him all the power in the relationship. You

(12:32):
are completely dependent on him, and this sets up the
possibility for a horrible dynamic. I would very much rethink
your relationship, not the jerk. I don't think it's an overreaction.
I'm concerned that you're allowing him to have total financial
control over your life, though I'm a teacher myself and
I know it's highs and lows. If not teaching, Please
find another job, even if it's part time, so that

(12:54):
you have at least that financial independence to fall back on.
Not to mention connections to people outside of your significant other.
From a legal standpoint, if he wants to protect you
and ensure you're never thrown out upon his passing, it
would be a good idea to add your name to
the deed of the house. Also for anything related to
the house where he might be absent, either out of
the country or in hospital, for example, then you can

(13:17):
still do what needs to be done. My husband keeps
going on solo vacations. I forty female, have a wonderful,
loving husband who's also forty. He is an involved father.
He pitches in with the housework, and he makes enough
money for us to be very comfortable while I stay
home with our two kids. I worked before having kids
and intend to again once they're both school age. He's

(13:39):
the love of my life. He's wonderful when he's here.
He has a dear friend living in a different city
five hours away, who he usually visits for two to
three days twice a month. I oh a few times
a year. They tend to take longer, four to six
day trips together. It adds up to a lot of
time away, but it's in manageable ink and in service

(14:01):
to an important friendship that I wouldn't want him to
miss out on. Last fall, they took a two week
trip abroad. I knew about it well in advance and
was fine with it. I figured it was a once
every few years type of thing. A month or so
after that trip, he tells me. They're planning another overseas
trip for this spring. This time it's a place I've
always wanted to go to. We had previously started to

(14:23):
plan a trip there ourselves, but decided it would have
to wait until the kids were older. I told him
I wasn't happy, but somewhat grudgingly gave my blessing to
what was supposed to be a seven to ten day trip.
Same goes for another five to seven day trip abroad.
They decided to plan for this summer again to a
place we had previously talked about going together when the
kids are older. And then I found out that first

(14:45):
the spring trip and then the summer trip had ballooned
into three weeks each. I got upset. I cried and
told him I felt betrayed and abandoned, like he was
leaving me here to raise the kids. Both trips will
now cause him to miss significant kid related events he
knew about before planning, while he just goes on doing
what he wants and living his life without me. He

(15:05):
found my response really hurtful that I would act like
he's abandoning me and the kids, and said that he
deserves to have meaningful friendships and see beautiful things. I
might being unreasonable about this. I feel like I might
be because I haven't done a good job balancing parenthood
and my own social life. I basically don't have one anymore,
and worry I might be speaking from a place of

(15:26):
envy than fairness. And we do also take other trips
together as a family, but two months of intentional travel
and the span of a year seems like a lot.
And when you also add on the bi monthly hanging out,
that's about four months out of the year with his friend.
I can count on one hand the number of solo
days out I've had in the last three years with
any of my friends. And so again, I'm not sure

(15:47):
how much this is envy versus unfairness NOE. I haven't
yet insisted he cancel any of his trips, but want
to ask if he'll at least scale the summer trip
back to one week instead of three So bonus what
I'd be the jerk if I insisted he scaled back
the summer trip to one week. You're not the jerk,
but I do think you're not facing a harsh truth.

(16:08):
This dear friend is more than that. He has a
live in nanny and housekeeper who lets him take off
and travel whenever and to wherever at his leisure, use
his time away for a month to secure a job
a nanny, then file for divorce and custody. I wish
you well, not the jerk. His amount of travel is
way too much. I strongly suspect your husband is having

(16:29):
an affair with his friend or using the friend as
a cover for an affair. Oh honey, my husband spends
more time on average with me and the kids than
your husband spends with you, and mine is in the army.
I mean, let that sink in there. Your husband spends
less time with you than many people who are legally
required to pull twenty four hour shifts and deploy at

(16:51):
a moment's notice. And for what, to spend his time
with a friend. Yeah. No, he's cheating, whether it's physical
or noting time and money and emotional energy that rightfully
ought to be directed towards his wife and kids. He's
taking advantage of you and treating you like a living nanny.
None of that is okay. He deserves to see beautiful things.

(17:12):
Oh no, what do you and the kids not also
deserve to see beautiful things? Are your time and your
relationships completely worthless? What about your kids and their memories
and their relationships? Are they also less important than this
grown man's escapism forget scaling back the trip. He doesn't
need another trip. What he needs is some priorities, and

(17:34):
if he refuses to get those in order, then maybe
it's time for you to go find a man who
can be an actual partner in life, not the jerk. Obviously,
you'll only be the jerk if you tolerate this absolutely
unacceptable behavior towards both yourself and your kids. Am I
the jerk for telling my little stepsister I didn't make
any vows to her. My dad got to remarried when

(17:55):
I sixteen, female was nine. My stepsister, who's nine, was
who at the time, my mom had passed and her
dad bailed on her mom when she was pregnant with
her and was never in her life and never paid
child support her anything. When my dad and his wife married,
they wanted to do a family unity ceremony, which meant
me and my stepsister would be standing there while vows

(18:16):
were made to us, and then, as the kid who
could speak, I would make a vow to always be
there for her, to love her and be her big sister.
I passed on that my dad was upset. His wife
was even more upset because she wanted the video to
show her daughter one day of me making those vows
to her and holding her. The ceremony happened. They made

(18:37):
the vows to us while I was sitting and she
was being held by her mom. But I didn't make
any vows. There has been an expectation set that, even
though I didn't say the vows, that I would be
the big sister my dad's wife wanted for her daughter.
The vows she wrote for me say things like, I'll
always do your hair when you ask, have makeovers whenever possible,

(18:57):
take you to the park, play dolls in clim trees
with you, and snuggle on the couch. And that's not
even the whole list of what she promised from me.
But she did expect that stuff and was disappointed when
I didn't do it. Dad pushed sometimes, but not all
of the time, which I get since he probably did
want more cohesion from us and for me to make
an effort to try and love her and be a

(19:18):
sister for her. Around the age of five, my stepsister
started to get a bit more demanding with that stuff
thanks to her mom and my dad a bit. She'd
always want me to take her places or always want
to tag along with me, was always coming into my room, etc.
It got annoying, and when I would play with her
or watch a movie with her, she never wanted it
to end. She'd cry and whine, and her mom would

(19:41):
try and make me keep going. When I would say
I needed to do my own stuff now. Dad sometimes intervened,
but not always a few nights ago, she came into
my room when I was facetiming my aunt and said
I needed to do her hair the way I did
mine at night. She got into my laptop screen and
tried to end the call. I had to do it myself,
and when I told her I wasn't doing it for her.

(20:02):
After that, she said I made vows to be her
sister and I was being mean by not. I told
her I made no vows. She said I did, and
her mom showed me them. I said her mom wrote
these and I never said them. She told me that
wasn't true. I called her mom in and told her
she needed to stop lying and tell her the truth.
Dad came in and told my stepsister the three of

(20:24):
them needed to talk. My stepsister was so upset by
what I said, and when it was confirmed, she ran
off crying to her room, saying I don't love her.
Dad asked me if I could console her and assure
her that I do love her, and I said I
couldn't do that, so he went to go comfort her.
But his wife said I was a jerk and I
should have played along to spare her daughter's feelings. Am

(20:45):
I the jerk, not the jerk? Your stepmother has way
too much expectations about sisterhood. I think it would be
normal with that big age gap that your bigger sibling
doesn't want to play with the younger sibling all the time.
And your stepmother and father have been in the wrong
when they tried to force the big sister little sister
relationship to happen. These things happen naturally if you give

(21:06):
time and space. Got yelled at by a Karen for
the first time last night, and I don't feel well now.
I've been a server for over six years, on and off.
I only work a few times a month now as
I have a full time nine to five. I expected
my worst serving experiences were behind me, but last night
proved me wrong. I was very busy, juggling eight tables

(21:28):
at once. I was literally running and sweating because of
how busy it was. It all started when a woman
asked for a side of butter. I told her I
would go get it for her. I had to go
to the bar and drop off some drinks. She then
yelled at me about the butter. It had been maybe
forty five seconds. I said, I haven't been able to
get to the kitchen, but I was getting it right away.

(21:48):
I ran to the kitchen, ran out, her butter, dropped,
and ran back. Apparently I threw the butter on the table.
It's possible I didn't do it super gentle, but it
wasn't meant to be aggressive or anything. She complained to
the manager and told him what an evil person I am.
He didn't care, but assured her it wasn't malicious. He
told me, just continue to be nice. I kept checking up,

(22:10):
how's it going? Everything good over here? Let me know
if I can get you anything, and they stayed mostly silent.
At the end, I gave them the check, and after
five minutes of her intently reading the check, I asked
if everything was okay. This is where she got so
out of hand. She said I'd ruined their entire night,
how terrible and malicious I was, and my attitude ruined

(22:31):
her birthday. She kept being hateful to a point where
I just had to walk away and have my manager
take care of it. My manager took care of their
bill and told her to leave. She then went to
the front to go off on me more. I finally
couldn't hold it in and outburst with stop, please leave
me alone. I've been nothing but nice to you. Just leave,

(22:51):
and she continued throwing her nasty words at me and
told my manager I couldn't speak to her like that.
My manager repeated exactly what I said and told her
to leave it well. My coworkers also demanded for her
to leave. Some customers joined in too, after witnessing her
behavior as she tried to yell at me more I
was unprofessional and looked her in the eyes and said

(23:12):
some people are just miserable. All the tables around her
assured me I couldn't have done anything different, but I
still feel at fault for some reason. I know this
was an overreaction on her part, but I kind of
feel unsafe and scared now I've never experienced anything like
this as a server. Edit. Thank you for your reassuring words.
Now that I've been able to sleep, I feel two

(23:33):
times better. I think it was just shocking initially. I
appreciate every one of you. Yeah, after trying to de
escalate three different ways, you were absolutely right to stand
up for yourself. You don't have to take anyone's crap.
Her reading the bill for five minutes straight was her
trying to find ways to get something for free by
going off on you. Am I the jerk for not

(23:54):
letting my cousin and his family stay at my house
even though I have the extra space. Background, my maternal
grandmother got remarried to a wealthy man after my biological
grandfather passed when my mom was young. They got divorced
after an affair was discovered, and my grandmother got one
of his homes in a very very nice area. Grandma
got remarried again to another wealthy man, to the person

(24:17):
I call Grandpa. Grandma and Grandpa have since passed, and
Grandma left the house to my mom, who was her
only kid. Cash was divided between my mom and her
step siblings slash, my aunts and uncles. The house is
huge beautiful, five bedroom, five and a half bathroom Georgian
style home with a pool and jacuzzie. My grandmother treasured

(24:38):
that house and put a lot of effort and love
into it over the decades she lived there. I could
never sell it. She always said she wanted it to
remain in the family for generations. Mom and Dad lived
there once Grandma and Grandpa passed and I was out
of the house. However, they've since moved to Florida and
left the house in my care. This house is a
pain in the butt to maintain. Though neither me or

(24:59):
my parents are rich by any stretch of the imagination,
every penny of my mom's inheritance goes to maintaining that house.
Now the issue. My favorite cousin on my granddad's side
asked me recently about moving in. His wife, whom I
don't get along all that well with, said that since
I have the extra space, they wouldn't mind them and
their two kids moving in for a while. According to them,

(25:21):
they're tired of slumming it in the city in an
apartment and were hoping they could get a higher quality
of life in a nice neighborhood. They could save the
money from rent and put it towards their own house
in a year or two. I was put on the spot,
but I told them no, that I valued my privacy
and solitude. I told them that my lifestyle conflicts with
theirs and it wouldn't work. They called me selfish for

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not even considering it, and that I should at least
take some time. I told them the answer would be
the same if I did think about it. My dad's
side of the family said I'm being selfish. My dad
assured me he's taking care of it, and he's on
my side. Mom has told me, under no circumstances, am
I allowed to let anyone move in read it. I
have to wonder if I'm being selfish here. I mean,

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I have a ton of room, and I'd be helping
out my family and my little nibblings. So am I
the jerk? Not the jerk? One hundred thousand percent. You
don't owe your home to anyone. That's an insane boundary
they crossed by assuming it would be okay. Valuing your
privacy and solitude is your right, and you do not
owe them a darn thing. Living with someone is a

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really special experience. I wouldn't do it either. Some people
are like that, and there's nothing wrong with that either.
But I am the same as you, the soy Lady.
Many years ago, I worked at a small cafe. The
customers were generally lovely and it was not a very
popular place due to it being in a weird location,
so it was always slow and quiet. We often got

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regular customers in, and when I started, I was warned
about the soy Lady. She was an older woman who
came in to order an extra large takeaway cup of
extremely hot soy milk. The staff would heat two cups
of soyl milk to the edge of burning, put it
on the counter, and call her name. She would sit
down at a table and wait for about five minutes
after her name was called, then collected. She then always

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came back to the counter after drinking half to complain
that soy milk wasn't hot enough and demand for it
to be redone for free. She also argued the cost
three dollars relentlessly when she ordered at the counter. Our
manager was a spineless weasel and hated customers getting karny
at the counter in case it caused other customers to
think this is a bad place, so he always caved

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to her bizarre demands and would be rate the staff
in front of her so he would look good for
being a tough manager. So shortly after I started I
met Soylady. It vaguely bothered me. She was getting away
with nasty comments to staff and an absolutely ludicrous addiction
to lava hot soy milk because what the heck, but
not enough to actually do anything about it, until one

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day my manager decided that it was our fault we
couldn't make the soy milk to her specifications, which apparently
it costs the business a lot of money, and he
would take the full cost of her drink from our
paycheck each time she returned it illegal, yes, immoral, absolutely
completely insane, you know it. So the next day my
manager decided to take the morning off, presumably due to

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the mutinous mood of the cafe staff. Soy Lady rocks up,
argues the cost of three dollars as usual, pays and
then says, don't forget to make it half this time,
with a nasty smirk on her face, filled with sudden inspiration.
I ask, as hot as I can make it, she replied, yes,
even though I doubt you can do it right, need,

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I insisted she waited the counter because it was going
to be ready, immediately filled up a metal jug with
soy milk, shoved it under the espresso steamer wand and
let it scream. You're supposed to adjust the jug so
the milk spins, but I just let it boil, screaming
loudly as I stared blankly right at her horrified face
for what felt like two minutes, though probably she started

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to look nervous halfway through, and every customer was staring.
Forty five seconds in. She started to try to tell
me that it was done, but I shouted, I think
it can still get hotter over the whale of the
burning soy milk. Finally, I took it off the wand,
which was now crusted brown with burnt milk, tripled up
on the takeaway cups because it was unbearably hot, and

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then told her we now charge five dollars for cups
of soy milk, starting immediately, and we charged full price
for refills. Management's orders not true, but I was done
by that time. Interestingly enough, I never saw soy lady again.
Am I the jerk for letting my fiance fin for
himself after he constantly compared me to his mom. My

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fiance had a heart attack and required an open heart
surgery two weeks ago. He just got home a few
days ago, and I'm caring for him. A little backstory.
His mom and I don't have a good relationship. Since
the beginning of my relationship to my fiance, his mom
would constantly try to compete with me and one up
me on everything. She always claimed she should be the

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first woman in my fiance's life because she birthed and
raised him, and how I can't break their bond. For
the most part, these comments were unprovoked, and at first
I would be too scared to defend myself, But later
I stood up for myself and my fiance stood up
for me and established some boundaries with his mom. His
mom sometimes crosses some of those boundaries, but for the

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most part, she's been acting a bit better. During his
stay in the hospital, both I and his mom took
turns staying with him. Ever since we got home, I'm
the one caring for him twenty four to seven, and
I don't mind. I love him and I want him
to get better. But I got extremely upset because after
we got home he was being ungrateful about everything. He

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started comparing me to his mom. He started saying his
mom would do this thing better, and why can't I
do it like his mom does, since that's how he
likes it. He gave backhanded compliments to the foods I
make and says it's good, but it's not like my mom's.
Times also snapsid me because I won't do something quick
enough or properly enough, and he will tell me words

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like I wish my mom was here, she wouldn't be
so useless. Just tell her to come here if you
can't do these basic tasks. I was patient with him
because I don't want to upset him during his recovery.
What made me lose my mind and leave the house
was when he told me that his mom was probably
right when she said she should be the first woman
in his life since she'd care about him better than

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I do, and how it was a mistake establishing boundaries
with her, and that I was the one he should
have established boundaries with. After this comment, I didn't think twice.
I just packed my clothes in my handbag and left
and went and stayed at my cousin's house. He called
me and said that I'm the jerk for leaving him
home alone while he's recovering, and that I should have
at least called his mom first so she had come.

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I told him he should call her, and it's none
of my business anymore. My parents told me I was
out of line for leaving him to fend for himself,
and that he's right that I should have called his
mom first. And now I'm for making this about me
when my fiance's recovery should be my priority, not the jerk.
Go back pack the rest of your stuff and leave

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him for good. He's showing his true colors. A mama's
boy will always be a mama's boy, and he'll always
come second. Op. For all these years, he was an
amazing partner who was able to set all the right
boundaries to his mom. I don't know what changed now
and he switched that fast. Nothing changed. This is who

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he is. It's easy to put up boundaries when things
are going well. I have sympathy for him in terms
of his recovery from surgery, but ultimately it's difficult circumstances
that really test the partner's willingness to maintain said boundaries.
If he can go back on his word. This time,
he'll do it again exactly. Sure. The surgery is a huge,
emotional and painful process that can bring out the worst

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in some people, but it sounds like he has adjusted
his true self long enough to lock Op into marriage
and kids. Once that happens and Op is tied down,
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